Episodes
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1. Words Are Softer Than Oil
30 Jan 1967 · 50 min
Peter Thornton believes the North Sea gas field extends into Dutch waters, and Mogul plans a diversion to secure it before rivals catch on. Brian Stead sends his son John, who has little experience, to the Netherlands with Thornton, who also brings his girlfriend Julie Serres. Julie, however, has long known Prince Diaz of Zenith Oil, and he is quick to guess what Mogul is up to.
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2. A Damn Great Lump Of Iron
6 Feb 1967 · 49 min
Mogul wants a new supertanker built quickly and for no more than seven million pounds. Alec Stewart leans on Lord Ravenscar, owner of the yard, who threatens to shut the yard rather than take a loss, while on Tyneside Peter Thornton puts the figures to union official Arthur Rogers. With the shop stewards divided over a strike, the union turns to Sam Jardine, now a local MP and in poor health.
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3. My Daughter Knows Her Way Around
20 Feb 1967 · 49 min
On a routine trip to the Middle East, Alec Stewart is kidnapped and taken into the desert to meet a man who claims to speak for plotters against Nasser. He wants to know whether Mogul would return to Egypt, years after its oilfields were nationalised, if they seize power. Against Brian Stead's wishes, Stewart goes to Egypt to look into it, with Sally Andrews, daughter of a former Mogul man, as his guide.
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4. Home And Dry
27 Feb 1967 · 49 min
When a fatal accident wipes out the crew of Mogul's underwater habitat MogAqua One, Brian Stead suspends the costly programme. Peter Thornton travels to Tembigo to look into it with Commander Cardno, who worries about the strain on deep-sea divers. To find the cause, the new MogAqua Two is lowered to the site, and Thornton learns to dive in a hurry so he can go down with the team.
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5. We're None Of Us Perfect
6 Mar 1967 · 50 min
A computer-led cost-cutting plan calls for closing Mogul's Burling bulk plant, setting Peter Thornton and Alec Stewart against each other over how to handle the unions. Stewart is prepared to use leaks and provocation to weaken union official Clancy. At home his preoccupation strains his marriage to Roz, whose dress boutique is in financial trouble, just as Brian Stead weighs whether Stewart is ready for the board.
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6. Think Big
13 Mar 1967 · 49 min
While Peter Thornton and Alec Stewart push ahead with plans for a giant tanker berth in County Kerry, Brian Stead is offered a high-profile government appointment for three years. He leaves for Stockholm, and deputy chairman du Cros, left in charge, stalls the Irish project. On the way home, blizzards strand Stead and Willy Izard in the Scottish Highlands, where Izard challenges him over his priorities.
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7. Some Days You Just Can't Win
20 Mar 1967 · 50 min
When Togamo, a small West African country, asks to charter a tanker, the odd request leads Alec Stewart to suspect that the country's petrol is being sold on in breach of sanctions against Rhodesia. Peter Thornton flies the company plane to Brussels, and the trail leads to a front company and a tanker called the Rosanna Three. Brian Stead and Thornton then set off for Togamo, and a long flight across Africa with pilot Dave Sandy.
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8. Nothing To Do With Mogul
27 Mar 1967 · 48 min
Alec Stewart's Easter plans are overturned by news that his estranged aunt has taken her own life in Stoke-on-Trent. As the only relative who can be contacted, he goes to deal with her affairs, much to the annoyance of Brian Stead, who needs him at important tests with Mogul's partner Jimmy Satchell. In Stoke, grasping relatives arrive to claim their share while Stewart tries to understand how his aunt came to be so alone.
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9. No Sentiment In Business?
3 Apr 1967 · 48 min
When Harry Telfall is killed in a car crash, Alec Stewart and Brian Stead see a chance to buy his engineering firm and its research into battery-powered cars, which could threaten much of Mogul's market. Peter Thornton is sent to the factory in the Midlands under a cover story to assess its work. He finds chief engineer George Ward at odds with Maggie, the young widow who now owns the firm.
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10. Journey From The Interior
10 Apr 1967 · 50 min
With no word from the Dibouti pipeline Mogul shares with Trident, Peter Thornton is sent to find out what is happening, only to stumble into a tribal rebellion. Ambushed and stranded, he takes refuge with a mercenary, Major Ruthven, Sister Domitilla, a nun, and a young deaf girl, and the group tries to escape through the jungle. In London, meanwhile, Brian Stead learns the pipeline may no longer be needed and weighs his options.
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11. Long Knives Cut Deep
17 Apr 1967 · 50 min
A mining accident in Bradgate injures Will Faulkner, whose son Gordon is part of the Gas Council team negotiating North Sea gas prices with Mogul. Looking for an advantage, Brian Stead sends Alec Stewart to Bradgate to dig into Gordon's background. Stewart learns more than he expected from the injured miner, and Gordon, angered at being investigated, confronts him.
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12. Women And Business Never Did Mix
24 Apr 1967 · 46 min
Alec Stewart and Brian Stead are negotiating to buy the British arm of the Vornkind Group, a deal that would hand Mogul more than a third of Britain's plastics trade. Uneasy about the market dominance it would create and about plans to sidestep the regulators, Willy Izard ignores his wife Joan's advice and leaks the deal to journalist Mary Fielding. The story soon puts the monopoly question before the Board of Trade.
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13. There's Always A Next Time
1 May 1967 · 49 min
When Mogul finds commercial oil in West Pakistan, director Alec Stewart wants the field developed at once, but Brian Stead has the wells capped and the find kept secret because of the risks of investing on the Indo-Pakistani border. Stewart refuses to accept the decision and takes his case to chairman Sir Giles Bliss. The quarrel grows into a boardroom battle over Stead's authority, and Stewart is prepared to go further still.
The Troubleshooters Season 3: quick answers
How many episodes are in The Troubleshooters Season 3?
Season 3 of The Troubleshooters has 13 episodes, about 11 hours in total.
When did The Troubleshooters Season 3 come out?
Season 3 premiered on 30 Jan 1967.